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TIL Before fat losers, Abercrombie & Fitch didn’t want minorities representing them either

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awdXb Today I learned there used to be a Louis Tussaud’s wax museum in Britain ,whose models so seldom resembled the people they were meant to represent, it developed a cult following and sold in 2014
4QkJ TIL of Archibald McArthur, a successful Wisconsin lawyer who took a vow of poverty, later moved to Florida at age 79, and left his family members each $5, while leaving his remaining fortune of $3 million in today’s money to a stranger he met on a park bench.
9Yo4p TIL Rollin Stone hated Led Zepplin's first album. in 1969 they called Led Zepplin weak and unimaginative in their review.
YpBmZ TIL in 1996, an Boy Scout working on his Atomic Energy badge created the first nuclear reactor ever made by a private US citizen.
YpNJd TIL about the "London Necropolis Railway", a railway line opened in 1854 just to carry corpses (and mourners) to a cemetery (at the time the largest in the world) 37km away from the city. There were even two stations in the cemetery, one for the Anglicans and one for non-Anglicans.